Contemporary American Studies – serie
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War Stuff
The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War
Av Joan Cashin
Inbunden, 2023
502 kr
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In this prize-winning work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and environmental resources necessary to wage war. This war “stuff” included the skills of white Southern civilians, as well as such material resources as food, …
Global Remapping of American Literature
Av Paul Giles
Inbunden, 2023
645 kr
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ENG: This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles …
Mourning Modernity
Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism
Av Seth Moglen
Inbunden, 2024
423 kr
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In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary modernism is, at its heart, an effort to mourn for the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the most celebrated literary movement of the 20th century is structured by a deep conflict between political hope and …
Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood
Av Brian Steele
Inbunden, 2024
619 kr
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ENGThis book emphasizes the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the nation. He appears in the book as the …
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850
Av Jenna Gibbs
Inbunden, 2024
803 kr
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ENGJenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first …
Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire
Inbunden, 2025
625 kr
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Карла Малфорд в своей книге подробно рассматривает, как формировались взгляды Бенджамина Франклина (1706–1790) на экономику, общество, политику и окружающую среду. Под влиянием идей раннего либерализма этот видный деятель американской революции отстаивал свободу слова и совести, право на …
